Example

Jamon, Jamon (1992, Sp.) (aka A Tale of Ham and Passion)

Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)

Writer/director Leslie Harris' authentic emotional coming-of-age melodrama (her directorial debut film shot in only a few weeks on a low-budget) was one of the first honest portraits of urban black female teenagers - it was also about sexual ignorance and unplanned pregnancy; the film won first-time director Leslie Harris a Special Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, and was tauted as the first film ever written, directed, and produced by an African-American woman; it told about enterprising, self-confident (almost abrasive and insubordinate), pretty, and smart 17 year-old black high school student Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson) living in a Brooklyn housing project - her mis-education and irresponsibility about sex and self-destructiveness led to predictable consequences of unprotected sex; in one scene, three black girls joked about how to avoid getting pregnant: have sex standing up, have sex during one's menstrual period, or shake up a bottle of soda and use it as an after-sex douche; she ultimately wound up pregnant by fast-talking, Jeep-owning Tyrone (Kevin Thigpen), and although he provided her with $500 for an abortion, she spent the funds on a shopping spree; she carried the baby to term (while making efforts to hide and deny her pregnancy) rather than having an abortion, resulting in the film's believable, bloody and wrenchingly graphic labor-childbirth scene after which the premature newborn baby was heartlessly but momentarily placed in a trashbag and abandoned on a street; the film's unrealistic and uplifting ending found Chantel taking night classes to get her HS diploma

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

There was one imaginative and surreal CGI sequence of virtual reality sex (or cybersex), the first of its kind, in this science-fiction thriller loosely derived from Stephen King's short story; Marnie Burke (Jenny Wright) and mentally-retarded lawnmower man Jobe Smith (Jeff Fahey) wore bodysuits, gloves, and head-mounted displays (HMDs), and were strapped into huge gyroscopes - all connected to the computer. After they kissed, the two intertwining lovers became swirling liquid metal, fusing with one another. The couple took the form of two metallic insects looking like a two-headed dragonfly - flying as one being. Jobe took over the dual fantasy, claiming to know what was in Marnie's mind, but she became trapped in his scary world and then traumatized ("Oh my God, let me out") - causing her brain patterns to become irregular, signifying that she had become a brain-dead vegetable

The Lover (1992, Fr./UK) (aka L'Amant)

Director Jean-Jacques Annaud's stylishly-filmed, moody and erotic masterpiece was based upon a semi-biographical novel by French author Marguerite Duras; it told about a pigtailed, under-aged white French school girl, credited as Young Girl (18 year-old model Jane March at the time of filming, in her first starring role) in French Vietnam (in late 1920s colonial Saigon) who offered herself, with sensual abandonment (detailed in voice-over by Jeanne Moreau as a flashback) in many heated scenes, as an amorous partner in forbidden and torrid sexual love (inter-generational, inter-racial, and between classes) to an older 32 year-old aristocratic businessman, credited as Chinese Man (Tony Leung); the love-making scenes (some with body doubles) were filmed to appear sexually realistic in his dark streetside room; in addition the young schoolgirl also experienced masturbation and lesbian contact with a fellow student (Lisa Faulkner as Helene Lagonelle) in one of the film's earlier scenes

Poison Ivy (1992)

Director Andy Ruben's low-budget, erotic psychological thriller (released in both an R-rated theatrical version and an unrated DVD version) was the first of a series - that became popular only after release on video; it starred Drew Barrymore in this first installment as the trampish title character, sexy teen femme fatale Ivy; in the film's first sensual scene, Ivy's alter ego - Sylvie 'Coop' Cooper (Sara Gilbert) - sketched a cross (with entwined ivy) while viewing Ivy's leg tattoo as she rope-swung dangerously over a ravine, and remarked on Ivy's pouty lips ("Not that I'm a lesbian... well, maybe I am"); later Ivy was 'adopted' by 'Coop's' family and soon wanted to replace Sylvie's life - she had sex in the rain on the hood of a Mercedes when she seduced Sylvie's wealthy father Darryl (Tom Skerritt) - who had a sickly, hypochondriac invalid wife Georgie (Cheryl Ladd); Ivy also had a sexual encounter with the father (he took her from behind) near a piano during a thunderstorm, as Sylvie walked in on them during the act; in the fateful ending, Ivy ended up dead on a driveway after a balcony struggle with Sylvie; there were two sequels: director Anne Goursaud's Poison Ivy 2: Lily (1996) with Alyssa Milano as the title character, and Kurt Voss' Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (1997) with Jaime Pressly (see below)

Single White Female (1992)

Barbet Schroeder's edgy erotic thriller told about psychotically-compulsive roommate, copy-cat Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who modeled her roommate Allison Jones' (Bridget Fonda) hairstyle and lifestyle; she was often seen in various states of undress and often pleasured herself - she even coquettishly seduced Allison's unfaithful boyfriend Sam Rawson (Steven Weber) under the covers with oral sex and then vengefully murdered him with the spiked heel of a shoe thrust into his eye, when she attempted to violently take over Allison's life

Wide Sargasso Sea (1992, Aust/UK)

Body of Evidence (1993)

Boxing Helena (1993)

Director Jennifer Chambers Lynch's (David Lynch's daughter) directorial debut film was an erotic, provocative and disturbing psychosexual work that was decried by feminists; this controversial, misogynistic film was originally contracted with Madonna and then Kim Basinger as the star, and settled by a multi-million dollar lawsuit in favor of the producer when Basinger backed out; in this R-rated art film, obsessive brilliant Atlanta surgeon Dr. Nick Cavanaugh (Julian Sands) was shown to have a promiscuous and uncaring blonde-haired mother named Marion (Meg Register) who simultaneously teased, ignored and tormented him as a young boy; he developed problems with premature ejaculation before he became entranced by his vivacious, unattainable, bitchy and libertine neighbor Helena (Sherilyn Fenn); Cavanaugh was able to experience a brief one-night affair with her in the past, but couldn't fathom being without his lustful desires for her after peeping at her through her window during a sensual evening tryst with her sleazy macho boyfriend Ray O'Malley (Bill Paxton); he took advantage of her when there was a terrible hit-run vehicular accident outside his palatial house following a party (in which she sensuously twirled around in slow-motion in his outdoor fountain while stripped down to her black lingerie) - he performed surgery and made her a 'Venus de Milo' amputee (metaphorically and physically) by first removing her damaged legs (and then her arms to imprison her), exhibiting amputee fetishism (known as acrotomophilia); to cover up his atrocious entrapment, he quit his hospital job, cut off all contact with the outside world, and attended to his imprisoned possession; later (in a scene set to a Gregorian chant), the doctor had wild sex with a call girl (Nicolette Scorsese) in black lingerie while being watched through a cracked door by his captive, dismembered quadruple amputee female companion; although still captive and dependent, she would continue to scorn and emasculate him with denouncements of his manhood, although eventually taught him (with limbs in a dream sequence) how a woman should be loved

Chained Heat 2 (1993)

Doppelganger: The Evil Within (1993)

Indecent Proposal (1993)

Lake Consequence (1993)

This erotic cable-TV (Showtime) drama (by the soft-core duo of director Rafael Eisenman and writer/producer Zalman King) starred Joan Severance as Irene, a 30-something suburban housewife who became lustfully attracted to studly landscaper Billy (Billy Zane); she was abducted (when she was accidentally locked in his camper-trailer) and joined him and his blonde bi-sexual, exhibitionist, extremely-fit girlfriend Grace (May Karasun or Hollie L. Hummel) for the weekend; they took a trip to the remote Lake Consequence where Grace enjoyed skinny-dipping and clothes-free freedom; the film received a lot of attention for its video-cover - referencing a menage a trois sequence between the threesome in a steam-filled Chinese massage/bathhouse, including some intimate lesbian kissing; as in many of these late-night cable tales, the repressed sexuality of Irene was released and discovered through her living out her sexual fantasies and abandonment to Billy

Philadelphia (1993)

The Piano (1993, NZ)

Schindler's List (1993)